Sunday, July 3, 2016

A suicide bomber was intercepted by Saudi police outside the U.S.
consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia early Monday morning and blew himself
up after exchanging gunfire according to local reports.

Monday the
Fourth of July is Independence Day in the United States marking the July
4, 1776 Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. The attack also
took place in the latter days of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in
which Muslim terrorists have killed and wounded thousands of victims in
worldwide attacks.

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Former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration and current
University of California Berkeley professor Robert Reich wants Americans
to be vigilant this July 4 against “exclusive patriotism” that “asserts
a unique and superior ‘Americanism.'”

“We hear a lot about patriotism, especially around the Fourth of
July. But in 2016, we’re hearing about two very different types of
patriotism. One is an inclusive patriotism that binds us together. The
other is an exclusive patriotism that keeps others out,” Reich writes

The Arkansas senator on the list of potential running mates for
Donald J. Trump, the GOP’s presumptive nominee, told activists Saturday
at the Western Conservative Summit that Hillary Clinton’s reckless and
criminal behavior disqualifies her to become America’s
commander-in-chief.

A combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, Sen. Thomas Cotton (R.-Ark.) said he was glad make it on time for his speech after a series of travel delays.

“We were on the tarmac, I thought Bill Clinton might be boarding my
plane to talk to me,” said the former Army Airborne Ranger officer.

If there’s a more difficult way to catch open-ocean, fast-moving fish
than with a speargun, nobody knows what it is. Known as blue-water
hunting, it takes place miles offshore, where the ocean is deep blue and
the fish are few and far between. It is fishing’s equivalent of African
big game hunting, only with sharks and no powerful rifle. On the plus
side, if you do manage to kill something, you get to eat it, rather than
stuff it and hang it in the den. In short, hunting big, powerful game
fish like tuna, yellowtail and even marlin with nothing but a speargun
is the ultimate way to put yourself at a major disadvantage to the fish.

“Spearfishing is tough because as humans we’re totally out of our
element in the ocean. If you throw a human in the water and tell them to
get a fish, it’s not going to be very productive,” says Ryan Moore, a
local “spearo” sponsored by Riffe International, a premier spearfishing
company based in *San Clemente. “So you have fins to move around, a
wetsuit to stay warm, a mask to see, weights to help dive, a snorkel to
breathe. And on and on. There are so many pieces of gear that have to
come together effectively to be a hunter in the water.”

I was diving with a buddy in South Laguna one day
among the kelp and I kept thinking my fins were getting caught in it.
My buddy motioned me to go up, but I didn't want to as I was chasing
fish. At any rate, he looked frantic again, I went up and he said a
Moray was biting a fin.:) They are great to eat, but better shoot them
through the head or they may go for you. At Dana Point at low tide you
could take a short bamboo pole with heavy wire leader, shrimp on the
hook and poke under large rocks for them. They live a long time out of
water in a wet burlap sack. but die immediately in fresh water. Almost
lost one in my kitchen sink when it started going down the drain, but it
was the garbage disposal side fortunately. :)
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Abalone was the most expensive meat in the world back then. My favorite
was breaded. "Off The Steps" refers to an area between *San Clemente
and Capistrano Beach off the coast highway. There are steps coming down
from the palisades and if you go directly out from there, they are in
18/20 feet of water. They were so big at least back then, because it
was so dirty that you could only dive it a few times a year. I got the then California record for Green Abalone here. North of
that a few miles is Dana Point where I had my boat. If you go out to
the red buoy, you can find big scallops in 80/90 feet of water. We
would bring them up and eat them after squeezing lemon or lime on them
and hot sauce. Excellent. Lobsters there and big Sheephead also.
Almost drowned once as I had a bag full of scallops, then chased a fish
and ran out of air, I would kick some, then exhale and finally I thought
this would be the last shot and although I didn't make it, I saw the
surface, best breath of air I ever breathed. Of, course it would have
been easier if I had dropped the bag............:)

Archaeological zone 9UN367 at Track Rock Gap, near Georgia’s
highest mountain, Brasstown Bald, is a half mile (800 m) square and
rises 700 feet (213 m) in elevation up a steep mountainside. Visible
are at least 154 stone masonry walls for agricultural terraces, plus
evidence of a sophisticated irrigation system and ruins of several other
stone structures. Much more may be hidden underground. It is possibly
the site of the fabled city of Yupaha, which Spanish explorer Hernando
de Soto failed to find in 1540, and certainly one of the most important
archaeological discoveries in recent times.

Note: Due to the extreme popularity - and controversy - of this article, the Architecture & Design Examiner
has created a sequel, which describes in detail the research
methodology used by these Native American scholars, and invites readers
to submit scientific evidence that either proves or disproves the
interpretations of the Track Rock terrace complex by Native American
scholars. It is entitled, Mayas in the USA controversy . . . you be the juror. The linkage to this article is at the bottom of the page.

Around the
year 800 AD the flourishing Maya civilization of Central America
suddenly began a rapid collapse. A series of catastrophic volcanic
eruptions were followed by two long periods of extreme drought
conditions and unending wars between city states.

Podcaster and blogger Sonnie Johnson was having a pretty good time
with this year’s BET Awards until Jesse Williams took the stage, as she
told SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily.

“He gives this speech, a Black Lives
Matter speech, and I wrote a responding article on Breitbart.com,
entitled ‘OK, Do You Want to Talk About Freedom Now?’” Johnson said.
(The current title of the article was expanded to include both Johnson
and Williams’ names; it may be read here.)

As Johnson pointed out, Jesse
Williams has “a white mother and a black father – and that is what the
Left has spent their time talking about, while the Right is talking
about how divisive he is. And lost in this process are black people.”

She said she wrote her article to
“reach those people, telling them the honest truth about why we cannot
get problems solved in the black community.”

I did not get a single
negative comment from one black progressive. No one called me an “Uncle
Tom.” No one called me a “coon.” No one plastered my name all across
their headlines, saying how bad I was. But what did occur was Stacey Dash saying that he is a Hollywood progressive slave on a plantation.

Daniel Hannan, a conservative Member of the European Parliament
representing South East England and one of the most vocal advocates in
favor of #Brexit, had a “fiery exchange” with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour,
in which Hannan repeatedly rejected Amanpour’s attempts to smear Leave
supporters as racist and pushed back against her accusations that he had
made misrepresentations.

The interview, which aired on Tuesday, featured Amanpour questioning
Hannan for details about how Britain’s exit from the European Union
would be accomplished.

.........the video, with a few seconds shy of nine minutes of Hannan
smacking down rudeness and ridiculousness from Amanpour over and over
and over again.

Amanpour kicked off the interview demanding a “plan” from Hannan,
complaining that she had not heard plans suggested by pro-Leave
politicians, only from Prime Minister David Cameron.

When Hannan pointed
out that the Prime Minister is the person who actually has the
political power to set plans in motion, the hostility ratcheted up a
notch.

The EU should "do its best to
undermine" the "homogeneity" of its member states, the UN's special
representative for migration has said.

Peter Sutherland told peers the future prosperity of many EU states depended on them becoming multicultural.

He also suggested the UK government's immigration policy had no basis in international law.

He was being quizzed by the Lords EU home affairs sub-committee which is investigating global migration.

Mr Sutherland, who is non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International and a former chairman of oil giant BP, heads the
Global Forum on Migration and Development
, which brings together representatives of 160 nations to share policy ideas.

He told the House of Lords committee migration was a
"crucial dynamic for economic growth" in some EU nations "however
difficult it may be to explain this to the citizens of those states.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s former chief of
staff during the time Clinton was Secretary of State was spotted leaving
Clinton’s residence on the same day Clinton was interviewed by the FBI
about her email scandal.

Cheryl Mills,
who has been called as a witness in the FBI’s investigation into
Clinton’s use of a private email server, was seen on video leaving
Clinton’s home at about 10 a.m. No explanation was given for why a
witness in the investigation would be meeting with Clinton.

Earlier this week, former President Bill Clinton held a private
meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch — a meeting that has been
criticized as giving the appearance of a conflict of interest.

A never-spoken-about problem with Muslims is their inbreeding as a result of their long and deeply-ingrained practice of marrying first cousins — a practice that has been prohibited in the Judeo-Christian tradition since the days of Moses.

More than 7 years ago, the UK’s environment minister Phil Woolas had sounded the alarm about this “very sensitive” issue that is “rarely debated”. Referring to the culture of arranged marriages between cousins in the Muslim immigrant community, Woolas said: “If you have a child with your cousin the likelihood is there’ll be a genetic problem.”

In mid-1863, Tammany Hall’s Boss Tweed found a way to settle the hated draft issue, give Lincoln his cannon fodder, and buy immigrant votes. Tweed brokered a deal with New York City politicians to find substitute recruits for drafted city residents, use the city treasury to pay whatever signing bonus the market would require, and tap a special $2 million “substitute” fund financed by bonds to be sold on Wall Street. If a New York City resident got caught in Lincoln’s draft, he could either use the fund to buy his way out, or join the army and keep the money. With this deal, Lincoln used Tammany Hall to run his draft in New York.

Author Kenneth Ackerman wrote in his biography of Boss Tweed: “His county recruitment drive for the army would attract scandal: abusive bounty brokers, unqualified soldiers — either prisoners from local jails or immigrants literally straight from New York harbor — and middlemen stealing fortunes in graft. But it hardly raised an eyebrow compared to the epidemic of war profiteering that had infected the country.”
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com The Great American Political Divide

Northern Race Riots, Conscription and Substitutes

“For four days terror reigned [in New York City], marked by a series of grisly lynchings [of black residents]. A mob even swarmed onto a British ship in the harbor, and despite the Captain’s protests, cruelly beat up the foreign Negroes among the crew. The police were barely able to save the Tribune Building from total destruction. Men searched for the Tribune’s editor, singing, “We’ll hang Horace Greeley from a sour apple tree.”

A Negro orphanage on Fifth Avenue was burned to the ground. Looters had a field day, among them screeching women who opposed [military] conscription.

Troops were rushed from Gettysburg [immediately after the battle]; cadets from West Point came to aid the police; the entire naval force in the region was called upon to quell the disturbance. Finally, in desperation, the military raked the streets with cannon fire. But what really stopped the rioting was a posted notice: “the draft has been suspended in New York City and Brooklyn.”

The newspapers carried the word in huge print. Order was finally restored. According to the Tribune of July 25, some 350 people had been killed; but other estimates went much higher. Casualties, including the injured, amounted to 1,000 and private property damage was estimated at $1,500,000.

Republican newspapers claimed the outbreak had been sparked by Confederate agents. But Democratic Party feeling and a sincere desire for peace were mingled with race prejudice and resentment against what the anti-Lincoln papers called the “incompetence” of the Administration. Men resented fighting against their convictions and were indignant at “governmental “frauds and profiteering.”

Apparently, from the magnitude of the outbreak, the London Times had not been far wrong in predicting that if the South won in Pennsylvania, Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee would receive a rousing welcome along Broadway.

Soon after the tumult subsided, the Democratic City Council of New York voted that the exemption [from military service] money of four hundred dollars for impecunious draftees would be paid from the city treasury. To meet Governor Seymour’s charge that the conscription as practiced was “unequal, fraudulent and a disgrace,” President Lincoln reduced the New York quotas [for troops].

When the draft was resumed a month later, he took the precaution of sending 10,000 infantrymen and three artillery batteries from the Army of the Potomac to see that the business went off quietly.

During New York’s bloody pandemonium, [British Colonel Arthur] Freemantle had been surprised to hear everyone talking of the “total demoralization of the Rebels.” To him it sounded absurd, since only a few days previously he had left Lee’s army “as full of fight as ever,” much stronger and more efficient from every military point of view than when it had crossed the Potomac to invade Maryland the previous September.

In the Colonel’s opinion, Lee’s army had “not lost any of its prestige at the battle of Gettysburg, in which it had most gallantly stormed strong entrenchments defended by the whole Army of the Potomac.” Freemantle took ship for England and completed his book of observations at sea. “The mass of respectable Northerners,” he wrote, “though they may be willing to pay, do not very naturally feel themselves called upon to give their blood in a war of aggression, ambition and conquest . . . The more I think of all I have seen in the Confederate States of the devotion of the whole population, the more I feel inclined to say with General Polk — “How can you subjugate such a people as this?”

[And] even supposing that their extermination were a feasible plan, as some Northerners have suggested, I never can believe that in the nineteenth century the civilized world will be condemned to witness the destruction of such a gallant race.”

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.